This year, for the World Cancer Day, UMPIWE is partnering with Thinking PINK Breast Cancer Foundation to support Cillahmah Cancer Foundation in Kamakwie, Karene District.
After a meeting on the 3rd February with stakeholders, cancer survivors, secondary school students and healthcare workers, we continued the next day with a training of healthcare workers about breast cancer and free screening for breast and cervical cancer for the community.
Sarah gave a presentation on breast cancer to more than thirty healthcare professionals at Kamakwie Wesleyan Hospital.
Breast cancer is the most common and deadliest cancer among women, with more than 2 million women diagnosed each year and over 670,000 deaths annually.
Together, we reviewed how breast cancer can present (signs and symptoms), how to detect and diagnose it early, the risk factors, as well as the different treatment options.
With our partner, the Thinking Pink Breast Cancer Foundation, we then taught these healthcare professionals how to examine a patient and how to teach her to perform breast self-examinations at home.
